Margaret Cash will remain in temporary accommodation with her family until an alternative arrangement is provided by officials.

The mum-of-seven hit headlines during the week after she was forced to sleep in Tallaght garda station with six of her children on Wednesday night. The Dublin woman, aged 27, feared she would be back out on the streets this morning.

Dublin Live reports that the accommodation, which is being provided by Inner City Helping Homeless (ICHH), will continue to be available to her and her children until the Dublin Region Homeless Executive (DRHE) can provide her with an alternative.

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Anthony Flynn of ICHH confirmed last night that they would continue to provide accommodation for the family but warned that the interventions carried out by the volunteer group are "unsustainable".

Ms Cash had previously said that come Monday morning she "doesn't know what will happen" and that her family had been moving from place to place over the last year.

Tallaght woman Margaret, who's been on the housing list for 11 years, said that trolls have flooded her Facebook page since her story went around the world.

When asked about the backlash she has received on social media, Ms Cash said she is "ashamed" that she and her seven children are in this situation.

She said: "I am ashamed. But what could I do when I've got nothing else? At the end of the day, this homeless thing can happen to anybody. Nobody knows what's around the corner for them. I wouldn't wish this upon anybody.

"As a mother, it's a very, very shameful thing when you haven't got anywhere to put your kids. The kids, they were scared. It's the smaller ones that don't understand what's happening.

"It's happening all over the country. There's children every single night of the week sleeping on Garda station floors. There's hundreds of families that are homeless."

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Speaking to Dublin Live on Thursday, she said: "The council [South Dublin County Council] told me there's nothing we can give you, there's nothing we can offer you until a home becomes available. They said 'we don't know when that will be. Could be next month, could be next year'.

"They told me to self accommodate. Where are you going to get a hotel room with seven kids? It's just impossible, it's just not going to happen.